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please don’t drink the bleach.
By | August 7, 2010
this is not about this story: “A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach will prevent HIV.”
or this comment: “I’m an old ER nurse and we saw kids all the time that drank bleach. Why they will drink that and not eat vegetables is beyond me.”
it’s about miracle mineral supplement.
what is miracle mineral supplement? it is a bleachlike compound that some folks mix with lemon juice and drink, because they are convinced they are infested with bad bugs and poisons.
“I thought myself to be free of toxins and parasitic encumbrances, but upon starting the MMS regime I was very much mistaken – after consuming the 8th drop twice per day, I was overcome with nausea… Perhaps I wasn’t as ‘clean’ as I had once thought!”
the “inventor” promotes the idea that folks are full of bad bugs and poisons, and that the bleachlike stuff can tell the difference between these and healthy tissue, and the only reason the bleach-and-lemon makes you vomit is… well, just listen.
“We definitely know that chlorine dioxide is made in the body from sodium chlorite and that it kills the hell out of pathogens. There is one other function that the chlorine dioxide performs in the body. It tends to neutralize poisons… Each tiny chlorine dioxide molecule has tremendous power to destroy those things from which it can draw electrons, but it does not have the power to draw electrons from healthy cells or aerobic bacteria… The nauseousness is the result of the chlorine dioxide attacking pathogens in the body. In the case of a liver condition, such as hepatitis, one almost always gets nauseous. The reason for this is that the liver begins to expel the poisons as the chlorine dioxide begins to destroy them.”
the FDA thinks it may be dangerous to drink bleachlike stuff, and issues a warning.
“The product instructs consumers to mix the 28 percent sodium chlorite solution with an acid such as citrus juice. This mixture produces chlorine dioxide, a potent bleach used for stripping textiles and industrial water treatment. High oral doses of this bleach, such as those recommended in the labeling, can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and symptoms of severe dehydration.”
voices of the Internets reply:
“…The FDA is systematically destroying everything and anything that actually HELPS people with health problems. You have to be a complete IDIOT not to recognize that. They consistently pump out DEATH DEALING POISONS to people and slaughter MILLIONS of people every year and get a slap on the wrist.”
“…I have been taking the MMS for 3 years. It has killed my re-cancerous cells, lowered my cholesterol, oxygenated my blood thereby giving me more energy, and my doctor was amazed at my blood test. She just had a baffled look on her face. Of course I did not tell her how I did it.”
“…The fact is MMS works and works well. I’ve been taking it for ages and don’t ever get colds or flu at all and have loads more energy than before. The FDA is owned, funded and controlled by the drug companies. Check it out if you don’t believe me.”
“…sorry FDA but this stuff is helping poeple with their diseases AND YOUR[FDA] NOT APPROVING IT… EVEN BIBLE SCRIPTURE INDICATES THEY[FDA] ARE LEADING MANY ASTRAY.”
more about the bleachlike stuff from wikipedia, source of all knowledge:
“Chlorine dioxide is used primarily for bleaching of wood pulp, but is also used for the bleaching of flour and for the disinfection of municipal drinking water… Chlorine dioxide is used in many industrial water treatment applications as a biocide including cooling towers, process water and food processing… It can also be used for air disinfection… and for odor control in the air scrubbers of animal byproduct (rendering) plants… Stabilized chlorine dioxide can also be used in an oral rinse to treat oral disease and malodor.”
here are the things the “inventor” believes may be cured by drinking bleach and lemon, or, as he advises, taking them intravenously. (!!!) each of these has its own little web page. i’ve added a few representative quotes from some of these.
Aspergillosis
Allergies
Alzheimer Disease ["I have known of people with Alzheimer’s use MMS and they say they feel much better."]
Ankylosing Spondolitis
Arthritis
Atrial fibrillation ["MMS may help."]
Atypical Urothelial Cells
Bartonella
Bipolar disorder
Anemia
Babesia
Beta Thalassemia Minor
Bone cancer ["I can’t tell you for sure how long it will take to get rid of the cancer everyone responds differently."]
Osteopenia
Osteoporosis
Osteosarcoma
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Autism ["In my opinion it would help your son. Read my book and study it."]
Chronic Depression
Bladder cancer
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Esophagus cancer
Leukemia
Lung Cancer
Lymphoma ["Yes keep on taking MMS... I would prefer for you to stop taking chemo, but that is up to you."]
Multiple Myeloma
Oral Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Retinoblastoma
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ["Yes, MMS will help you."]
Chickenpox
Shingles
Chronic Fatigue
Chronic obesity ["Once the MMS is thoroughly saturated the body, all that is gone, leaving a clean body... Can you think of any reason why the body will not get pretty healthy at that point."]
Cirrhosis
Colds and Flu
Colon cancer
Cystic Fibrosis ["If you aren’t getting well, you aren’t taking enough."]
Dengue fever
Diabetes Mellitus
Constipation
Crohn’s Disease
Diarrhea
Diverticulitis
Giardia Lamblia
Peptic and Gastric Ulcers
Edema
Endogenous Retrovirus (?!)
Erythema nodosum
Blindness ["I also known of people who have gotten their sight back."]
Cataracts
Fibromyalgia
Candida
Gout
Gum disease
Tinnitus
Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Myocardial infarction ["One man who was having small heart attacks every day was no more having heart attacks after taking the MMS for three days."]
Palpitation
Heavy metal poisoning
Hepatitis C
Herpes
High blood pressure
High cholesterol
HIV
AIDS
Hives ["Spray some MMS on... If you feel that it is burning, just wash it off."]
Chronic Immune System Dysfunction
Sarcoidosis
Dental Infections
Ear Infections
Eye Infections
Nose Infections
Yeast infection
Insomnia
Interstitial cystitis
Chronic Kidney Disease ["In some cases the kidney appeared to clear up in weeks."]
Kidney stones
Leishmania
Leprosy
Liver cancer
Lupus ["Everyone who has called me who has lupus all the symptoms have disappeared."]
Lyme Disease
Malaria
Melanoma
Meningitis
Migraine
MRSA
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity ["MMS has been known to pull mercury and lead out of the tissues."]
Multiple Sclerosis
Myasthenia gravis
Mycoplasma
Neuroendocrine tumor
Neuropathy
Ovarian Cyst
Pancreatitis
Pancreatic cancer
Parkinson’s Disease ["It may be necessary to take MMS by IV infusion or enemas to make a big difference."]
Pimples
Pituitary tumors
Pneumonia
Q fever
Asthma
Emphysema ["We have had several people... doing much better from emphysema after taking MMS."]
Influenza
Sinusitis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Ring cell carcinoma
Sciatica
Scoliosis
Seizures
Actinic Keratosis
Burns ["Put it on in a tiny spot, wait a few hours to see what happens in that spot."]
Eczema
Psoriasis
Warts
Spinal Stenosis
Tapeworm
Gingivitis
Periodontitis
Toothache
Thrombocytopenia
Thyrotoxicosis ["For Thyrotoxycosis chanced are that it would help don’t know but it generally does."]
Tonsillitis
Tuberculosis
Type 1 Diabetes
Ulcerative colitis
Wegener’s granulomatosis ["So far MMS has cured all of the autoimmune diseases."]
what is sensical here?
sensical (adjective): Making sense; showing internal logic; sensible. Antonym: nonsensical.
… that your body is full of bad bugs and poisons? does that seem like the way mother nature, evolution, or an intelligent designer (take your pick) would make you?
… that bleach would, if you drank it, injected it, or sprayed it on, not only kill bad bugs and “neutralize poisons”, but also fix your carpal tunnel syndrome? and your metastatic cancer? AND autism?
… that, according to the bible, the FDA slaughters people by the millions, and therefore you should drink bleach (with lemon)?
nay! these are not sensical.
why is this happening?
my take is that folks have a deep and serious mistrust of science. we’re cool with medicine (we dropped $40 billion on homeopathics, herbal tinctures, vitamins, etc, in 2007), and we’re fine with industry (having a cellphone, a private car, and a good pair of nikes is pretty sweet). but mix science in with either of these (or worse yet, with both of these), and we become suspicious. there’s an assumption that there’s got to be a catch, there’s a trick somewhere, there’s something fishy.
i think this is the outcome of the mystification of science during the 20th century – finely tuned as it was, through the magic of elitist paternalism. it produced generations of doctors who couldn’t listen and patients who couldn’t speak. this got really exciting when “managed care” entered the scene, because then deaf doctors and silent patients couldn’t spend more than 8 minutes together in the same room at one time.
it’s especially exciting these days, as half the nation loses their jobs, their health insurance, and their cash flow – and the other half works harder for less pay and fewer “benefits”, to pick up the slack.
i say “especially exciting” because now we also have the Internets! so, today, we who who feel betrayed and abandoned by “western medicine” – and who feel like crap, possibly because of bad bugs and poisons – but more likely because it’s natural to feel like crap when you are broke, depressed, badly nourished, bored, sleep deprived, out of shape, in pain, ‘buked and scorned… all these average americans can, and feel they must, figure out their own means of diagnosing and treating themselves.
unfortunately, they can’t and/or won’t access standard medical information to help them. why should they? and how could they? instead, they send away for $20 worth of bleach and citric acid. (ew.)
i’ll tell you why they should. because, as olive schreiner (1855-1920) said, “Sisters, bloody feet have worn smooth the paths by which you came here.” these patients do not have to rely on trial and error! yes, individual stories (“An ear infection which I have had for 10 years has cleared”) are valid data points, especially for those particular individuals and their loved ones. but the whole idea behind science is that you repeat the experiment. and repeat it. and repeat it under near-identical circumstances every time. and see if it comes out the same way every time. if you think you have carpal tunnel syndrome, you do not have to randomly try every diagnostic technique and then every random treatment you hear about. because others have been there. a LOT of others. TONS of others. this allows you to rule out false leads and phony cures.
…and i’ll tell you how they could. it would start with not being so suspicious of scientific medicine, and replacing that suspicion with a can-do sense of entitlement. if you think the FDA is a cabal hell-bent on sickening the population, well, you can always go there and talk to them about it; you can call and email them and talk to them about it; you can investigate them online; you can, in fact, read about other people’s investigations of them – reputable investigations, not ones designed to sell you something, like those conducted by drug companies or manufacturers of colloidal silver. the FDA and its pals have a history. hundreds of graduate students have labored for millions of hours to write something new about this history. it’s practically all online, not to mention on the shelves of your local public, university, or hospital library.
that goes double for the basic facts of medical diagnosis and treatment. they are no secret, they’re not hard to understand, and they aren’t under lock and key, reserved for elites. if you are, or ever have been, a taxpaying citizen, you’re entitled to a library card (and the inter-library loan programs) at these publicly-funded institutions, and to the assistance of the smart and kind reference librarians who populate them.
i strongly recommend buying or borrowing a copy of Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, and bringing it with you when you visit the stacks or sit down to the Internets. my other piece of advice is: take notes. with your dictionary and your notebook at hand, you CAN read and understand “cecil’s internal medicine”, if you want to. you CAN read and understand “clinical microbiology made ridiculously simple.” you CAN read and understand Toxicity of chlorine dioxide in drinking water by MS Abdel-Rahmanet, et al, Journal of Environmental Pathology, Toxicology and Oncology – archived online at pubmed.gov, our national database of worldwide medical journal articles.
all these resources are like the distillation, the flower, the final product of generations of healthcare trial and error that YOU don’t have to repeat, at risk and expense, all by yourself.
how do i know? it’s how i first learned.
i was a young mom, with no health insurance, but with a deep suspicion of scientific medicine. at the tender age of 18, i had been diagnosed with, and surgically treated for, something that i believed was cancer. (it wasn’t.) it scared the hell out of me! so i went on a quest to find out “the truth” about how i could have, at such a young age, gotten cancer (it wasn’t cancer), and how i could keep it from happening again.
my doctor had not really spoken to me directly, which put the seal on my distrust of him. i certainly did not believe he was smarter than me, though obviously more educated. if he were really smart, i figured, he could easily explain to me how and why the cancer (which was never cancer) occurred. smart people, i figured, know how to explain.
it never crossed my mind that i was unqualified to or incapable of reading scientific and medical literature. i could read “the bible”, “the diamond sutra”, “the joy of cooking”, and “the whole-earth catalog” – how much harder could it be? and this before the Internets! all we had were libraries.
i was able to get a pretty thorough book learning in basic human anatomy and physiology, nutrition, embryology, obstetrics, gynecology, child development and psychology. i also used the medical literature to understand some of the reasoning behind herbal medicine and simple “kitchen medicine.” these enabled me and my friends and family to avoid doctors, clinics, hospitals, and laboratories for many years… until, of course, i ended up in medical school.
so… i guess my take-home message is… before you drink bleach, consider looking at the science, and becoming a minor expert, instead.
why not? you could take as your role model the “inventor” of bleach drinking (without necessarily drinking bleach) – he’s not a doctor! here’s his resume: “He worked on the first intercontinental missile, the moon vehicle, wrote instruction manuals for the first vacuum tube computers, set up experiments for A-bomb explosions, worked on secret radio control electronics, set up experiments in electrical generation by magneto hydro dynamics, complete wired the first machine to be controlled by computers at Hughes aircraft company and invented the first automatic garage door opener.” all this, before he decided to start drinking bleach on a gold-mining expedition. good times!
suggested reading:
pubmed.gov
mayoclinic.com
aafp.org [american academy of family physicians]
acpinternist.org [american college of physicians]
plosmedicine.org [public library of science]
snopes.com
Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner
Our Bodies, Ourselves by The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit
Clinically Oriented Anatomy by Keith Moore
Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
Introduction to Human Nutrition by Michael Gibney
Cecil’s Essentials of Medicine
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple by Mark Gladwin
How the Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac
Where There Is No Psychiatrist by Vikram Patel
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August 8th, 2010 at 7:39 am
I found reading this particularly interesting on the same day that I was rebuked for riding my bicycle every day while doing nothing to rid my body of all of the dangerous toxins ingested throughout the day. I don’t know what this guy wanted to sell me, but he tried to convince me that bicycling was just time consuming, useless and inconvenient, while supplements provide health and longevity!